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Evan Shapīro

Chaos Cartographer: Mapping Reality with (actual) Facts & Data

Top VoiceMarketingUnited StatesNew York, New York, United StatesView on LinkedIn

Named on LinkedIn's Top Voices list, US, January 2026.

Followers

74,464

Typical engagement per post

170

Average comments per post

29

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Profile figures as of October 2026.

About

Your favorite media expert’s favorite media expert. 🪐Webby Award Winner: Thought Leadership🪐 Top 5 Film & TV Substack Newsletter: Media War & Peace🪐 LinkedIn Top Voice: No one's ever accused LinkedIn of having taste🪐 Podcaster: The Media Odyssey🪐 Coined the term Affinity Economy. I was the first to predict YouTube would be TV's biggest channel. If you've ever referred to Warner Bros. Discovery as Disco Bros, that was also ESHAP.Thanks to his Media Universe Map, Evan Shapiro has become known as the Media Cartographer. Using his very specific voice and point of view, Shapiro charts Medias future through his essays on the Media War & Peace Newsletter – now one of the most read entertainment business publications on Substack. He also co-hosts The Media Odyssey podcast, which has become an industry touchstone. Shapiro has been a featured speaker at the world’s most important media events. His maps, infographics, and ruminations are now widely quoted and used by businesses, executives, analysts, and colleges around the world.  Many see Shapiro as the lone media professional with the data-backed courage to tell the industry the hard, unvarnished truth about itself.

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